The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-13
the FUNERAL OF BEECHER.
A Vanlt In 0reenwssA Cemetery re
ceives the Great Divine's Mortal
Remains.

t0C WhO8t DIvhmCS MOIv8A
Remains.
NEW YORK, March 12-The remains
Of the late Henry Ward Beecher were
taken from Plymouth Church, Brook
lyn, at $50 this morning, and conveyed
so Greenwood Cemetery, where they
were deposited in large receiving
vault where they will remain until the
family can select a lot for the final inter
ment. All night long the church was
guarded by Plymouth Company G. and
Thirteenth Regiment turned the re-
mains over to the Plymouth ChuIch
Committee who had charge of the
burial A Gordon of one hundred pO-
lice, in charge of a captain and three
sergeants, was drawn up in front of the
main entrance of the church on Orange
street. There were very few people on
the street at the time and everything
passed off fairly.
None of the family went To the church.
At O'Clock the members of the COM
mittee and other gentlemen present took
their last look at the face of the dead di-
vine and the lii of the casket was screw
ed down by undertaken Hopper. The
casket was lifted on the shoulders of
six undertaker's assistants and carried
out of the church and placed in the
hearse. The Rev. s. Ii. Halliday walked
in front of the casket with uncovered
head, The flowers which were placed
ON the top of the casket were allowed to
remain. The first carriage which pre-
ceeed the hearse was occupied by Rev.
8. B. Halliday, Undertaken Hopper and
Mr.. s. ". White. There were eleven
other carriages and these We're occupied
by John l. Howard, Rev. Edward
Beecher, Augustus Storrs, l. Van
Ingen Rev. Thomas n. Beecher
Mayor Whitney. F. c. Fanwooi, s. Wat
son, r. jerks, =. s. Ferris, Is. Gordon,
Mortimer Z. Ogden. ii. 7. Lonsberry,
Deacon Richardson, NJ. T.. Beach, Albert
Hedley, Thomas c. Bowen. of the Inde-
pendeaf, j. Arbuckle, DIR. George A.
Brush, Thomas X. Shearman. Z. ".
Howard. J. b. Stu,lwell, General Hora-
tio c. King, J. ". Andrews, \. Ogden
Smith, A. Bell, J. w. Gibson, Ex-Akler-
man Whitney, s. h. Sackett, J. Is. Cor
nell, James A. Brodit, j. b. Nerndons,
II. L. Hayden. c. Whitney, w. B. Col
lins, Alonzo b. Day and H. NJ Pratt.
The funeral.cortege proceeded from the
church to Henry street, to Montague
street, to- Clinton street, to Third street,
to Fourth avenue, to twenty-thir street,
thence to Greenwood Cemetery
Along the whole route to the ceme-
terry the streets were lined with people
and many followed the cortege to the
cemetery. 1t was shortly after 10 when
the hearse was seen coming in the main
road to the receiving vault and when
the vault gates, the crowd was so great
that the police had to force the people
hack to make room for the mourners to
alight. Pastor Halliday got out of the
carriage and received the casket which
the attendents bore to- the big box that
was standing in the porch The casket
was screwed up i'm the box and the pail
OF nowers was placed ON top. Then
hundreds of barred heads withstoOd the
biting blast while Pastor Halliday Of
fered up prayer for the departed soul.
He made a very touching appeal for
the afflicted family, which, ne saisI, had
been deprived of its chief member and
brightest ornament The large iron
gates of the vault were opened and the
attendants, led by Pastor Halliday. car
ried the body into the West gallery of
the vault. The friends of the dead took
u farewell look at the box and the doors
were closed. The doors of the main en-
trance tn the vault were covered with
evergreens, roses, smilax and Faster
lilies. After the cortege had left the
church hundreds of people gathered
round, and many begged for some of the
flowers Of the decorations az mementOs.